Detour

1945 · Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer · 68 min · USA

A doomed hitchhike into the bleakest B-movie poetry.

Detour 1945
Details
Ease
Approachable Good first watch: Approachable
Genre
Crime
Movement
Film Noir

The guide

Detour strips film noir to a road, a few rooms, and a narrator whose account never feels entirely safe. Its modest scale becomes an advantage: every unlucky turn seems tighter, stranger, and more inescapable. The film endures as a compact vision of guilt and self-deception, where rough edges add to the sensation that fate has closed in before anyone noticed.

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